The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-09-04

EVERYONE has read She, and every
one has heard through THE HERALD
that the clever Gillette's adaptation of
her will be seen at Niblo's next month.
1t will not be uninteresting to
note just how he has woven
the weird story into q presentable
drama. His manager describes it as
follows: Mr.. Gillette opens the play
men, Leo and his guardian with their
servant, Job, for Africa, to carry out
the sacred mission entrusted to them
by the will of Leo's father. The first
spectacular effect will be the shipWreck
scene, with the transformation from the
open sea to the sandy deserts. In the
second act we see Leo and his COM
panions, who have been washed ashore.
The great Nigger's Head promontory is
seen in the distance. Here the three
Englishmen are captured by the Anna
haggers, who will be represented by
some sixty or seventy men and women,
The women will be picturesquely at
tired, while the men, who will be giants
in height and build, will be dressed in
lions skins and tights. Following the
scene between the heroes and the leader
of the Amahaggers is to be presented
the pot boiling scene. which takes place
IN cave, and then is to come one of
the strongest scenes in the play-the
terrific hand-to-hand fight which takes
place when the natives horrible designs
on Job are understood.
The appearance of She will be the
next great scene. Prismatic fountains
are shown, and there is a break away re
presented through which She makes her
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people, and afteAward the Englishmen.
IN this scene there is heard the native
chants. Following the departure of the
people, She shows her Babboon the vi
sion of the faces in the sea, and the act
ends by hers nging a song during which
she is surrounded by flames of fire. This
is feature introduced by Mr.. Gillette.
In the next act we are shown the
Castle of She, where the great queen
meets Leo for the first time, and where
she denounces Leo's wife and marks
her forehead with her finger tips to
show her great power. A wonderful
etfectis introduced in the scene where
she burns the body of her former lover,
Kallikrates, in the presence of the
audience. There are one or two minor
scenes, and then the immense rocky
pass is shown. Here there is chorus
of ghosts, who come out of the rocks as
the Englishmen, accompanied by She,
start out for the Fire of Life.
I'm the scenes following are shown
the great rocks and caves and cliffs over
which the party must climb to reach
their destination. Then there is final
transformation to the enormous fire
which covers the entire stage and is
kept burning throughout the scene.
| Here, during the singing OF an unseen
chorus, She makes her terrific leap into
| the Fire of Life, and as the play ends
| the weird and supernatural change
takes place by which She is trans
| formed from the beautiful woman to
the decrepit' bag. | think the spec
tacular play. with the great effects in
PRODUCED by Mr.. Gillette, is destined to
have long rum"
| THElocal amateurs, the Home Drama
tic Club, whose performances have al
ways been so much appreciated by the
public, have decided to be up and doing
with the coming in of the fall, and will
produce the sensational me!odrama,
| The Lights o. London, towards the close
OF the winter. Mr.. Wells, Mr.. Spencer,
Mr.. Young, Mr.. Taylor, Mr.. Evans,
Birdie Cummings, Mrs. Smell, Ivy Claw
son, Clara Morris, and others equally
well known will be in the cast, and to
fill the character of Joe Jarvis, Phil.
Margetts, the well-known comedian has
been engaged; the part is one that fits
him entirely, and it is something of a
coincidence that he had just declined an
offer from Mcguire to travel as Jarvis in
a Lights of London company over the
Montana circuit. when the part was Of
fered him by the Home Club.